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Deltoid Muscle Anatomy and Function
Source: Verywell Health
The deltoid muscle is the main muscle of the shoulder. A triangle-shaped muscle, it helps move your upper arm and stabilizes the shoulder joint.
Advice From A Certified Hand Therapist: Thumb Arthritis
Source: HandCare (ASSH)
Do you feel aches and pains specifically at the base of your thumb? Do you find that the pain becomes worse when performing certain types of pinching, grasping, or gripping? Have you been experiencing stiffness, weakness, or a loss of motion at the base of the thumb? If any of these describe your symptoms, you may have osteoarthritis of the thumb, also known as basal joint arthritis or thumb arthritis.
Concurrent subacromial decompression, rotator cuff repair may reduce risk of revision
Source: Healio
Subacromial decompression with arthroscopic rotator cuff repair yielded a 21% risk reduction for revision compared with repair alone.
Surgeons find over-the-counter medications control pain after elbow surgery as effectively as opioids
Source: Medical Xpress
Children who take only ibuprofen or acetaminophen after routine elbow surgery report similar pain control to patients who take opioids, according to a new study by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
Isometric Elbow-Strengthening Exercises
Source: Verywell Health
Isometric elbow exercises are those in which you contract a muscle without visible movement to help strengthen the elbow joint. They are used in physiotherapy for the rehabilitation of people who have undergone elbow surgery or have sustained an elbow injury.
